Waste Management Appeal Kankakee County

OUTRAGE News has learned the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB) has denied Waste Management's motion asking the IPCB to reconsider their decision against Waste Management's appeal for a 302 acre, 200 feet high garbage dump with the County of Kankakee. Read the IPCB decision here http://www.ipcb.state.il.us/Cool/External/CaseView2.asp?referer=coolsearch&case=6390 . No word yet on whether Waste Management will appeal the IPCB decision to the Appellate Court.

OUTRAGE News has learned Waste Management has filed a motion with the Illinois Pollution Control Board (IPCB) asking them to reconsider their decision against their appeal for a proposed 302 acre 200 feet high garbage dump with the County of Kankakee. See the January 24, 2008 and December 7, 2007 articles below for background information on this issue. To read the Waste Management's motion and the Kankakee County's response, please click here IPCB Case No. PCB 2004-186

Waste Management is desperate because Sammons Point was reinstated as an incorporated village as of the February, 2008 election thereby taking away Waste Management's opportunity to submit a third application for a dump with the County of kankakee. The incorporation of Sammons Point means the County no-longer has jurisdiction in that area. The proposed site for the dump is about three miles south of the New Super Wal-Mart on the south side of the City of Kankakee.

Illinois Pollution Control Board affirms the March 17, 2004 decision by the Kankakee County Board denying siting of a 302 acre garbage dump by Waste Management, Inc.

The Board finds that the proceedings before the County were fundamentally fair and Waste Management was not prejudiced by the proceedings. The Board further finds that the County’s decision relating to the need for the facility (415 ILCS 5/39.2(a)(i) (2006)), the facility’s design to minimize the impact on surrounding property (415 ILCS 5/39.2(a)(iii) (2006)), and the traffic patterns (415 ILCS 5/39.2(a)(vi) (2006)) is not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The Board therefore affirms the County’s decision to deny siting for the landfill expansion proposed by Waste Management.

Waste Management has 35 days to appeal this decision against them to the Appellate Court. Click here to view the case details http://www.ipcb.state.il.us/documents/dsweb/Get/Document-59998/

The Illinois Pollution Control Board will hear Waste Management's appeal of the 2004 Kankakee County Board rejection of their proposed 302 acre, 200 feet high Chicago regional garbage dump which would be located within walking distance of the river and upstream from the Aqua Illinois water intake pipe.

IPCB will hear the case in Chicago and make a decision by January 24. If Waste Management wins their appeal, under the law, the IPCB would remanded the dump proposal back to the County Board for another vote. In their appeal, Waste Management contends the County board members, who voted No to three of the 9 criteria required by law to win approval, did not base their decision on evidence presented by Waste Management during their garbage dump hearing. Waste Management has been asking for delays since 2003.

This is one of two proposed Chicago regional garbage dumps to be sited in the immediate water shed of the Kankakee and Iroquois Rivers. The other garbage dump is being proposed by Town & Country Utilities owned by Tom Volini and Fred Barbara. Fred Barbara was recently implicated in a Chicago mob trial and according to Chicago newspapers, is a close friend of Chicago Mayor Daily. If both dump proposals happen, a total of 600 acres, 200 feet high in garbage would be dumped by as many as 600 semi-trucks daily.